Door-check



(N Model.)

Patented Jan. 28, 1890 UNITED STATES PA'IENT FFICE.

JOSEPH G. WHITTIER, OF ATTICA, INDIANA.

DOQR-CHEC K.

SPECI'CAIN fornang part of Letters Patent No. 420,134, dated. January 28, 1890. Application ii1ed May 6, 1889. .Renewed December 19, 1889. Serial No. 334,264. (No model.)

T0 a ZZ whom it may coneem:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH G. WHITTIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attioa, in the county of Fountain and State of Indiana, have invented oertain new and useful Improvements in Door Stops or Holders, of whioh the following is a speeifioation, referenoe loeing had therein to the aocompanying drawings, in whioh- Figure 1 represents a perspeotive view of my improved doorholder applied to an open door; Fig. 2, a side view of the same, showing the spring-holding bail thrown up out of nee; Fig. 3, a side elevaton of the same, showing the spring holding bail thrown down to impinge against the floor to hold the door open; and Figs. 4: and 5, detail perspeotive views, respeotively, of the springbail and bolder therefor; Fig. 6, a view of a slight modification of the invention.

The invention has relation to a oertain new and useful and extremely simple device, whioh I term a door stop or bolder, and whioh is adapted to be aitaohed to the door 01 gate near its lower edge, so that when in use it will engage or impinge against the floor in sueh a wanner as to hold the door in any desired position and efieotually prevent the wind fro1n blowing the door shut, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

The invention oonsists, essentially, in oombination, with a pair of stationary inclined lugs or plates, of a spring-holding loail pivotally conneoted to said lugs in suoh a manner that. when the bail is disengaged from the fioor it will quiekly and automatioally fiy up out of the way, its normal position being up against the door, as will more fully appear hereinafter.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A desgnates the door; 13, the inclined lugs, whioh may be formed integral With 01 attaohed to a plate C, secured to the door, and D the spring-holding bail pivoted between the said inclined ears 01 lugs B. The ears B are inolined upwardly, and are provided with holes nea1 their upper ends for the passage of the horizontal bent portions 01 pins a, of the loail D. The spring-bail is held in its plaee in the ears by the tendency of its anns to spring outwardly, as is evident. The plate C is seeured sufficiently near to the bottom edge of the door that when the bail is turned down to the position shown in Fig. 1 it will reaoh to and press upon the floor.

This device may be employed to hold the door opened to any desired degree by simply putting the toe of the shoeupon the springbail and pushing it down until it tests upon the floor, and then pulling the door over upon it until it springs under the door, the elastio tendenoy of the bail permitting this to be done, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. In this position the loail presses firmly against the floor and produces enough frietion to efieotually hold the door against aooidental jars and gusts of wind.

WVhen it is desired same is simply pushed back off the bail, when the latter will ixnmediately spring up out of the way against the door, as shown in Fig. 2, the inolined lugs and the outward tendency of the arms of the bail oausing this movement.

Instead of using ths invention for holding doors, it is evident that I 1nay, without departing from the invention in the least, einp1oy it for coat, unibrella, linen, and other raoks, and for other analogous purposes. It is therefore evident that I do not wish to oonfine myself to simply dooncheoks.

It is also evident that I may, without d epaiting from the invention in the least, use

a rigid or inelastic bail and make the lugs yielding, if I so desire.

As shown in Fig. 6, I may reverse the in olination of the oam-ea'rs B and employ inwardlypressing arms instead of outwardly pressing ones and produce the same result without in the least departingfrom my in vention.

Having thus ful1y described n1y invention, what I claim is Thecombination, with a pair of inolined ears 01 ean1s, of a spring-bail pivoted to said ears, the elastio. arms of this bal hearing against the inelined edges of the said oan1s, as and for the purpose speoified.

In testimony whereof I afix my sign ature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH G. WHITTIER.

WVitnesses:

GEO. P. PEARSON, E1). 0. RODGERS.

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